PDF to Text
Pull the plain text out of a PDF — clean, unformatted and ready to paste anywhere. Filesmith reads the text in proper reading order, all in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
🔒 Never uploaded
⚡ Instant
📋 Clean output
✓ Free
When you just want the words
Sometimes you don’t need the layout — you need the text, to paste into an email, a search box, a translator or a script. PDF to Text strips away fonts, columns and images and gives you the readable content as a plain .txt file.Reading order matters
A PDF stores characters by position, not by reading order, so naive extraction can jumble columns and headers. Filesmith groups characters into lines and paragraphs the way a person reads them, so the text comes out in the order you’d expect rather than scrambled.What plain text can’t keep
Text has no concept of fonts, colours, images, headers or footers, so those are dropped by nature. What you get is the words, in order — nothing more, which is exactly the point.Scanned PDFs won’t work
If the PDF is a scan or photo, the page is an image with no text layer to extract. That needs OCR, which Filesmith doesn’t do.Frequently asked
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. Text is extracted entirely in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
Will the text be in the right order?
Yes. Filesmith groups characters into lines and paragraphs in natural reading order, so multi-column pages and headers don’t come out scrambled.
Can it read a scanned PDF?
No. A scan has no text layer — the words are pixels. Extracting them needs OCR, which Filesmith doesn’t do.
Does it keep any formatting?
No, and that’s intended. Plain text keeps the words and their order but not fonts, colours, images or layout.
Is it free?
Yes, completely free with no limits.